in combination with brushes, provides a continuous electrical connection between stationary and rotating conductors. Translations sirpling, spirling...
See also: Sperling spirling, spurling Alteration of sparling. sperling (plural sperlings) (Scotland, obsolete) A European smelt (Osmerus eperlanus). Synonym:...
Germanic borrowing, found in German Spiering, Spierling, Middle Low German spirling, Middle Dutch spierling, suffixed from the word now Dutch spier (“spar...
*spierlinc: Middle Dutch: spierlinc Dutch: spierling → Middle Low German: spirling → Old French: esperlinge → Middle English: sperlynge English: sperling...
elephant's snout volute music volute volutite volutoid spiral on Ionic capital spirl on a gastropod's shell a type of shellfish casing in a centrifugal pump...
German: springen (de), hüpfen (de), tänzeln (de), herumspringen (de), herumhüpfen (de) Ottoman Turkish: سكمك (sekmek) Scots: spirl Scottish Gaelic: leum...